metempsychosis
noun
the transmigration of the soul, especially the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.
metempsychoses
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pluralof metempsychosis.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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All the metempsychoses depend on the imagination of the family Gurus, who receive for their kind offices from one hundred to one hundred and fifty rupees a year.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
Descriptions were also given, answering to the growing sense of personal responsibility, of the abodes of Hades and of the fate of souls there, and of the metempsychoses through which the soul must pass.
From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies
